Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 1st September 2024 | |||||
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| Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Byrd and Quinney Responses |
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| View Order of Service | |||||
| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Guerrero Missa Inter vestibulum Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch MVO Precentor |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Tallis Hear the voice and prayer of thy servants Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon in Residence |
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| Monday, 2nd September 2024 | |||||
| Lucian Tapiedi and the martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| View Order of Service | |||||
| Tuesday, 3rd September 2024 | |||||
| St Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, teacher of the faith, 604 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| View Order of Service | |||||
| Thursday, 5th September 2024 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| View Order of Service | |||||
| Friday, 6th September 2024 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars; attended by HE The High Commissioner for Eswatini | plainsong Lucis Creator optime |
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| View Order of Service | |||||
| Saturday, 7th September 2024 | |||||
| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Tallis Hear the voice and prayer of thy servants |
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| View Order of Service | |||||
